The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-09
The Labor Party Meeting Last
Sunday Evening an I'm
mense Success.
THE DOODLE" KNIGHTS OUT.
More People at the Denver Music Hall
Than In the Whole July 4
Procession.

There was an immense outpouring last
Sunday night at the meeting Of the Labor
Party held at Music Hall which was
crowded to the doors. And so intensely
interesting we're the exercises that the
crowd was held until nearly midnight, a
thing unprecedented in Denver audience
In summer time.
The Republican calmly suppressed all
notice Of the affair; the Neps gave brief
but distorted mention; but the new paper,
the Democrat, aside from a few mistakes
gave fair account OF the proceedings
fair enough TO entitle II to much more
consideration at the hands of the people
than any of the other dailies should re-
coive.
We condense from its account of tho
meeting as follows, adding comments of
our own In brackets:
AT the entertainment given last night
by the X. of l.. by the Labor Party, II
you please there was large, enthusiastic
and very orderly attendance. II was enc
of those meetings where one expects to
hear radical language, expressed in terse,
sonso-charged sentences and never fails
90 get them. II was meeting 'of that
kind whore the speakers mean what they
say, because they feel IL; and, feeling it,
know how to communicate II to others.
j. ID. Macdonald acted as chairman j.
II. Croxton opened the entertainment with
m address that fairly swarmed with patri-
otic sentiments. II was received with loud
and long applause. Between this and the
address by Mr.. Leahy, another staunch
supporter of the labor movement, the
Cheesewright brothers, gave character
song, "The Tramp end the Millionaire" I"
excellently rendered and applauded until
the very house rang again; and a reading
of the New Declaration of Independence"
by Miss Collar also vehemently ap-
plauded. Next came speech by Mr..
Lcahy-a speech of vim and vigor and
sense, so admirably mixed and mingled
with the choicest SMILES and metaphors
as to fairly dazzle the hearer and carry
him along in full sympathy with the speak
or. Mr.. Lcahy spoke only for fifteen min
utcs, but in that brief period he was inter-
rupted at least half dozen times by the
enthusiastic throng's re-echoing applause.
Among other things he made the state
mont that there were but three modes Of
doing battle with capital and monopoly:
"You must either use the bullet OF you
must throw the bomb, or you must WELD
the ballot with an iron and uncompro-
missing hand. Thank God, believe that
tho last means will be more than sufficient
for accomplishing our end.
One thing, however, regret TO say, and
that the press, which could II 1t were will
ing, afford as most efficient aid in hasten
ing on the period of our Liberation from
the incubus of capitalistic tyranny, is
waging most unjust warfare against our
high endcavors. We were promised that
representatives from the various papers
in the city would attend and report our
proceedings tonight, and where are they :
They have not come; and shall tell you
whyS II Is because the press is afraid to
breath into the gildcd public ear the story
of the laboring mans woes; because the
press is bought and owned and fettered
by the rich"
Mr.. Haskell, the editor ofthe LABOR EN-
ourRER, then spoke, and appealed so
strongly to the sympathies and impulses
OF his hearers that they gave him most
aattering ovation at the conclusion OF his
speech.
Mr.. Davis then read the speech Of Pat
rick Henry to the house of delegates of
Virginia. II was the original speech, the
publication OF which was at the time sup
pressed on account Of its radical express
sions. Daniel Webster has written sup
posed speech of Patrick Henry, familiar
TO every school-boy, and beginning with
''Sink or swim, live or die, SURVIVOR per-
ish, give my heart and my hand to that
vote" Beautiful as is this supposed
speech, 1t compares but indinerently with
the original. Mr.. Davis threw much
spirit into his rendition Of the speech and
coniured up very vivid picture Of that
most important event In the history Of
the American people. He called Patrick
Henry the 81. Patrick Of America; the true
father and creator Of liberty throughout
the world.
Miss McCarty then read poem by Ross
Martin.